# Principal Data Engineer at Octus

- Company: Octus
- What the company does: Reorg Research offers its subscribers an informational advantage over its competitors by providing time-sensitive, market-moving, and independent news, commentary, and analysis on the distressed debt market. Backed by FinTech Collective.
- Company website: https://octus.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $245K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/octus/jobs/5216326007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/octus-principal-data-engineer/

## About the role

Octus is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design, develop, and lead scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines. This is a hands-on Individual Contributor (IC) role that encompasses some management duties, including mentoring, architecture guidance, and providing technical leadership. You’ll play a key role in designing and maintaining robust data infrastructure that powers data platforms, products and automation initiatives across the firm.

## What they're looking for

- Strong foundation in software engineering principles , including SOLID design, modularity, and scalability
- Expert proficiency in Python for data pipeline and automation development
- Advanced SQL skills and experience optimizing complex queries and data models
- Proven experience designing and maintaining cloud-native data pipelines on AWS (e.g., MWAA/Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, Glue, S3, Redshift, etc.)
- Experience with data warehousing or lakehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
- Experience implementing and managing Terraform or similar IaC frameworks

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